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Within the pages of Lorine & Douglas Hargraves' new book, The Young Bride and Groom, ($14.99, paperback, 9781498430333) readers will discover a story of love – love that has lasted through sixty years of marriage. This remarkable story takes readers through this happy couple’s renewing of their vows and celebration including photos, prayers, poems, scripture passages, and other heartwarming messages. Book is a helpful tool for marital couples to achieve longevity through living a Holy life with a spouse and dealing with the problems they will encounter during marriage.

“My desire is to help young married couples to live a Holy life, so that their marriage will last,” states the author. “The best advice I can give any married couples is to come together in prayer.”

Mother Lorine Newton-Hargrave is a wife of sixty years. She is a California State Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN), which she worked at for twenty years, and still maintains her license. She is a state licensed co-owner of an academy, which she founded in 1985, with three programs, Infant Care Center, Preschool Center, and a Before and After School Center. She is co-owner of her church, where her husband is the pastor. She is a mother of five daughters, grandmother of thirteen, great-grandmother of eighteen, a foster mother of three, and a licensed state care specialist for fifteen developmentally disabled young men, whom she housed periodically for fifteen years. She is a Southern California State Licensed Evangelist
Missionary. She received her licensing under State Mother Lillian Morris Jurisdiction #1, of the Churches of God in Christ, in 1977, and she still has those licenses.

Xulon Press, a division of Salem Communications, is the world’s largest Christian self-publisher, with more than 12,000 titles published to date. Retailers may order The Young Bride & Groom through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. The book is available online through xulonpress.com/bookstore, amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com.